Comments on: Talking to Kids About Love

By: The Girl Revolution 40 Days of Love — The Girl Revolution

The Girl Revolution 40 Days of Love — The Girl Revolution — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 19:49:14 +0000

[...] was reminded of that post I wrote about two weeks ago, Talking to Kids About Love, where I encouraged you to talk to your kids about love: what it is and how it can be appropriately [...]

By: She Liked It — The Girl Revolution

She Liked It — The Girl Revolution — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 13:03:42 +0000

[...] like Twilight, Beauty and the Beast, [...]

By: Shauna

Shauna — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 23:54:53 +0000

Absolutely! How many times have we had friends in abusive relationships who have told us, “He doesn’t mean to, he loves me! He just gets angry.” In fact that’s part of the abusive “cycle”. Abuse, apology (usually with tears), honeymoon period…and then it starts all over again.

My husband never even thinks about hurting me (unless I use his razor on my legs LOL) – my life is as important to him as his life – and his life is as important to me as mine. It’s all about power. DH doesn’t need to assert power by squishing the life out of me.

This is such a dangerous trend – first of all, violence is a terrible problem, but second of all, we are teaching girls that men should have the power. They have the power to leave us with a horrible beast while they go to an invention contest, they have the power to make us live on dry land and abandon our family, they have the power to decide whether or not to let us live while we are making out. Scary.

By: Tracee

Tracee — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 22:38:04 +0000

A batterers “main purpose” isn’t to hurt his girlfriend or wife either. He fights his “instinct” and bummer, sometimes he loses. He tries not to hit her, hurt her, raper her. He just loves her so much. Kinda like Edward. Especially to a teenage girl.

We shouldn’t promote the sex and danger mingle. Our own demise should not be a turn on. It should be a red flag.

By: Shauna

Shauna — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 21:46:32 +0000

I think the problem arises in the way that the violence is what is glamorized, romanticized. It’s during the hot and heavy stuff that he wants her blood coursing through him and so on. The problem is – that kind of violence is turned into a sex scene.

If a man is constantly fighting the need to hurt you – there will come a time when he will lose that fight.